May 10-16 1999

From merope@Radix.Net Mon May 10 06:27:32 1999

Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:27:30 -0400 (EDT)

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Saturday 8 May 1999:

Saying that she has tried to hang in there and finish out her term, Board

member Kim Harris Myers, Northeast/North Central Region State Coordinator

Representative, posts, "Please accept my resignation from the board from

personal and health reasons."

The NC posts that he is sorry to see Kim resign and feels she's been an

outstanding member, and he wishes her well.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain

occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

--Thomas Jefferson

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-Teresa Lindquist

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From merope@Radix.Net Tue May 11 06:20:21 1999

Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 06:20:20 -0400 (EDT)

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Sunday 9 May 1999:

There is no Board-L traffic on this date.

Tomorrow's News Today: The Board begins voting on the webmaster position;

so far, there's a couple of votes for Pam Reid.

"He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from

oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that

will reach to himself."

--Thomas Paine

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:50:24 -0400 (EDT)

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The USGenWeb ALL list, v2.0

The NC declared Motion 99-10 open for a vote Monday morning; voting is

slated to close Wednesday morning. Board members are asked to vote for

either Pam Reid or Kay Mason for the position of webmaster.

I have heard from reliable sources that a fairly large number of Board

members are apparently not voting in this election. With less than eight

hours to go in the voting period, they have not been heard from. At this

point, I am told, a quorum might not be obtained.

Now might be a good time, if you are so inclined, to let your Board

members know that you appreciate their representation of your interests on

the Board, and encourage them to vote in this Board election. The project

needs an engaged, competent webmaster, and both of the candidates are

certainly qualified. It would probably not be in the best interests of

the project to leave this position unfilled any longer than is absolutely

necessary.

Thank you.

-Teresa

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From merope@Radix.Net Wed May 12 19:26:08 1999

Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:26:06 -0400 (EDT)

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Once upon a time in the Project...its Your Daily Board Show!

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your own risk!

Monday 10 May 1999:

The NC opens voting on motion 99-10: "Please vote for you candidate of

choice - for Webmaster - Kay Mason or Pam Reid. Voting will close on

Wednesday morning at 12:45 AM EST - 48 hours from now."

By the end of the day, five board members had voted for Pam Reid and none

had voted for Kay Mason.

Tomorrow's News Today: Three more Board members vote for Kay, and three

abstain. [This reaches a quorum, but neither candidate has enough votes

to be declared a winner. At least two of the remaining three Board

members need to vote for Pam for her to make the 2/3 majority required in

the bylaws. Oh, the suspense!]

And Speaking of Elections Corner: With the opening of the nominations

period only a little more than two weeks away, there has as of yet been no

information about the election forwarded to the project membership. No

call for volunteers has gone out. In this election, there will be 11

positions open. These are: National Coordinator, Archives Project

representative, NE/NC SC representative, NE/NC CC rep (both of them), NW/P

SC rep, NW/P CC rep, SE/MA CC rep (both of them), SW/SC CC rep,

and the new at-large representative position. Nominations will be

accepted during the first two weeks of June. Voting begins July 1. [As

DBS readers are the best informed members in the USGW Project, I urge all

of your to consider running for office, or suggesting qualified

candidates. You CAN make a difference!]

"Principle over expedience is still the best politics."

--Robert J. Caldwell

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Thu May 13 06:42:38 1999

Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)

From: merope <merope@Radix.Net>

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Tuesday 11 May 1999:

Voting on Motion 99-10 continues. Three Board members vote for Kay Mason

and three abstain, citing various reasons: "After much consideration I

have come to the conclusion that it would be better to have a national

webmaster that is not a member of the board"; "...I feel the best thing

for the entire USGenWeb Project would be to choose a Webmaster from among

our membership, giving more people a chance to have a more active role in

and contribution to the national website"; "I feel strongly that the USGW

webmaster should not be a member of the Board. It should be a

non-partisan USGW member, chosen from the membership."

Tomorrow's News Today: The NC asks for a motion to accept Kim

Harris-Myers' resignation and a Board member obliges him; vote totals are

posted for motion 99-10; Pam Reid is the new webmaster.

Trivia Corner: Kim is the 7th Board member to resign since the Board was

seated in September 1998. If you count the resignations of Beth Wills and

Pam Reid [who later retracted their resignations], they are averaging one

resignation a month.

Whack-A-Mole Corner: The normally reclusive Board Secretary Bill has

surfaced and posted the results of the vote on Motion 99-10 to the group.

As previously reported here, those results are: Pam Reid - 6 votes; Kay

Mason - 3 votes; abstain - 3; not voting - 3 [Kim resigned before the vote

was called]. The NC declares a quorum and says that Pam Reid is the new

webmaster [congrats Pam!]. Sightings of the elusive BS Bill are rare

indeed; he posts, on average, less frequently than Board members resign.

The New Zoo Review Corner: Brushing off user concerns about privacy, RW

decides to go whole hog with the FamilyPoint "arrangement"; a new webpage

is opened for RW's customers to list the size of their user fees at RW

[http://www.rootsweb.com/~donors/percent.html]; Brain explains to everyone

why they should send more money [and actually _almost_ manages to do it

without belittling other online genealogy information providers].

Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?"

Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky . . . try and take over

the world!"

-- Pinky and the Brain

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Fri May 14 10:13:21 1999

Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:13:20 -0400 (EDT)

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Wednesday 12 May 1999:

The NC posts the vote totals for Motion 99-10 [presented here yesterday],

and announces thta Pam Reid is the new webmaster.

The NC asks for a motion to accept Kim Harris Myers' resignation [posted

to Board-L 8 May 1999]

A board member moves, with regrets, to accept Kim's resignation.

Tommorw's News Today: BS Bill posts the revised vote counts for Motion

99-10; Board members snipe about the NC's "counting error" in the votes

for Motion 99-10.

Use Those Fingers and Toes Corner: As a number of astute readers pointed

out yesterday, thre was a discrepancy between my vote count, BS Bill's

vote county, and the NC's vote count on Motion 99-10. The NC reported 6

"aye" votes for Pam; Bill and I counted 5. Turns out that one of the

Board members voted off Board-L. [and apparently off Board-Exec as well].

Her vote was forwarded to the group and added to the "aye" votes, as you

may have noted yesterday in BS Bill's revised "Board Action on Motion

99-10/Correction of vote count" memo sent to to project membership

yesterday.

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand

by itself."

--Thomas Jefferson

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Sat May 15 10:11:07 1999

Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:11:06 -0400 (EDT)

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Thursday 13 May 1999:

BS Bill posts the vote tallies for Motion 99-10 [discussed here

previously].

A Board member asks, "If the NC made an error, I can't imagine why you did

not bring that to his attention," prior to posting the conflicting vote

tallies. The Board Secretary notes that she is "most certainly correct.

Thank you." and she tells him he is welcome.

The NC indicates that the Board Secretary did discuss the discrepancies

with vote tallies with him prior to publicly posting them, but says "one

Board member had sent their vote to me in private that I had accepted it

and that until or if the Board member wished to make their vote public it

would remain private."

The "private vote" is posted. It is for Pam Reid.

BS Bill posts the corrected vote tally for motion 99-10.

[Good. Now that we have that worked out, can we move on? There is a

Board member to replace and an election to prepare for. The nomination

period opens in 17 days.]

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

--Henry Cate

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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From merope@Radix.Net Sun May 16 13:24:04 1999

Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:24:03 -0400 (EDT)

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Feelin' groovy....its Your Daily Board Show!

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Friday 14 may 1999:

The new webmaster lets the group know she'll be away for a bit, but will

be back late Saturday.

The NC asks for a second on the motion to accept Kim Harris Myers'

resignation.

Tomorrow's News Today: Someone seconds the motion.

Clarity Corner: Upon re-reading yesterday's DBS, it has occurred to the

editorial staff that it might appear that the "stealth vote" sent

privately to the NC was improperly posted. That is not the case; the vote

was posted to the group with permission. Apologies for any confusion on

this.

"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise

of wisdom in governmental action."

--Louis D. Brandeis

This has been your Daily Board Show.

-Teresa Lindquist

merope@radix.net

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